Kailie Holliday

“We Walk” celebrates Black history with access in mind

September 27, 2021

On Sunday afternoon, passersby in Dawes Park stopped to listen to anthropologist Edward C. Davis IV. The professor of African American studies at an Illinois high school described how he discovered...

In Focus: Bienen students share experiences, advocate for increased representation and uplifting of Black composers, musicians

June 7, 2021

As Tahirah Whittington, the cellist of all-Black Chicago string quartet D-Composed, flew through a piece by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, her young audience stared in awe. The performance was part of...

In Focus: Diversifying classical music through education

June 7, 2021

According to a 2014 study by the League of American Orchestras, less than 2 percent of musicians in the approximately 800 orchestras surveyed were Black. The lack of Black representation in classical music...

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